Hi Charles: No kidding. $5 USD per page would be outrageously expensive to braille a document and I know APH and other organizations don't charge that much although buying a braille book, menu, etc from them is fairly expensive.
However, thanks to technology though we can cut the cost to almost nothing as far as documentation goes. This would not work with an iPhone, but would be fine for Android is they could keep a text manual or menu on a flash card that can easily be slid into any Android smartphone or tablet and read with Talkback. If the company has a website, which many do, they could simply have a menu or manual that can be downloaded to your smartphone, tablet, or other portable device and be just as accessible as a braille document. The problem is the people who run businesses are still unaware of the technology springing up around them. I wonder how many people are walking around with an Android phone like a Samsung Galaxy S4 or an Apple iPhone and are clueless that both come with built in screen readers for the blind? Until business owners are made aware of these things they can never learn to make accessible documentation for us that is inexpensive because for the average sighted Joe/Jane they still think in terms of braille rather than the electronics we use. Most people are probably unaware of the accessibility that come with many standard products. Cheers! On 12/11/13, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: > At $5 a page, a 100 page document would be far too costly. I don't know of > > anyone who charges that much for producing braille documents. I checked > into the cost of braille embossing several years ago, and was looking at > producing braille menus for roughly 20 cents per page. This was before the > > embossers that can emboss on both sides of the page, so the cost would now > be greatly decreased. > > --- > Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, > > you! really! are! finished! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
